To consider a strike to kill the laws of nature is as short-sighted as the ogre who’s eyes are on the inside of his skull. To master Cutting is to define nature, and Tenet 5 of Meti’s guide to Mastering the Sword reveals, it is far better to write, to write new laws for nature as the parer of potentials that excises infinites.

You think too much to consider nature a part of a Cut. You must not cling to your action, or its result. Clinging is the great error of men. A man who strikes without thought of his action can cut God.

A fact forgotten by almost all but the students of natural law, is that there are none. All natural laws are conjecture at the universe’s mechanisms not yet disproven. The goal of those students is to destroy that conjecture until only truth remains,in that regard the sciences are rather like cutting.

“…she was juggling them like a pair of circus balls. When our correspondent asked he ‘How it’s even possible?’, she gave him an answer that caused his brain to short-circuit with explosive results. He survived by a…”

There is no childish glee or smug satisfaction, as there was in Mother Om. That is the mark of the practiced journeyman. There is not the terror barely contained with exultant power, as there was in Allison. That is the mark of the apprentice.

On the face of Murder the Gods and Topple their Thrones is the resignation that lies beyond boredom. It no longer wears at her that she must perform this most simple of tricks. It matters not to her that to the uninitiated this seems the greatest of Arts. It is simply a chore.

Diagnose the patient’s illness from seemingly unrelated causes. Determine what the customer desires before they themselves know. Weave the names of a demon that has yet to be born. Strip the char from cherry-red iron. Strike the stone in the place that it will shatter. Magic so simple its practitioners recognize it as magic not at all.

Yes, it all looks very impressive, but any knight worth their oath could do as much.

Well, perhaps not quite so casually, nor with so clean a cut, nor with a blade that was fully sheathed at the time the weapon was fired. But as I’ve argued with Layla in the past, guns are all well and good, but a true knight will not be so easily defeated.

Mmmmhhh, she not only deflected the projectile… but also sliced right through. Most interesting, many either edge through, or edge away. She didn’t choose but instead cut both ways in 1 strike. Clear proof of a talent for cutting.

Often I have encountered the sort of combatant that can catch and/or deflect bullets, and I find their arrogance tiresome. An automatic shotgun has silenced many of their boasts. That said, I am somehow gripped with the impression that such methods might not work on this particular swordswoman. Best move for long-term survival is the avoid the fight entirely.

I vote nay, older brother, for while the principal Art of Cutting is truly an impressive Art, when Allison has come to master the terrible Blade of Want, the Art of Cutting and all other martial forms shall seem as meet children’s toys before its terrible desire.

I love how the Sarge is like “Fire, you fools!” and they’re just like “Is he fckin serious?” “Ralph, do it!” “No, you do it!” “Okay, lemme handle that. At such distance, I can’t miss.” *fires* “Did… Did you just miss?” “I… I swear I aimed for the head!” “Gosh, Damian, you’re useless!”

The muzzle flash of the rifle doesn’t seem to match up with the rest of the rifle. I’m not sure if that’s a deliberate thing, but it means that one frame is a little confusing. Just so it’s been said if it hasn’t already.

It was for some time a great disappointment to me that my Craft did not interest the highest Students of Cutting. Each seemed resigned to carry any old, dull table knife that fit their grip. I understand that they believe sharpness is a quality of the cutter, not of the blade.

I have since learned that I need not mourn their naivety; You cannot hear them speak in any case.

Probably not – a high Master of Cutting as herself would sever the projectile without mishap. I worry for whatever is behind her, as the fineness of the cut will make the weapon unstable in its passage

I suspect Ms. Murder the Thrones and Topple Their Gods cut rather more than just that bullet. I wonder, do any of those soldiers still live?

Also, cutting the bullet in half without exerting the lateral force necessary to separate the halves really shouldn’t do anything to change the trajectory of the halves. Which means cutting the bullet wasn’t the thing she did that actually defended her. And yet she took the time and effort to divide the bullet, among the actions effected by that single cut.

That bullet is strange. An earthly bullet would have a lead core, to match that lead tip. This one has a black substance at the tip, but no lead core.

What is it?

Erudite thought leads us to: This bullet is not made of lead and brass. This bullet is made of rose gold, which is an ideal bullet material if cost is no object.

What then of the black tip?

Given that the armies of the Demiurges are not bound by such niceties as the Geneva Convention, it is likely their bullets are tipped by a fatal dose of poison. Arsenic is a classic, Polonium-210 a more high-tech and lethal possibility.

Just because these soldiers LOOK old-fashioned does not mean they are not incredibly lethal.

Muskets? MUSKETS? An immortal demon-slaying Blade of Want was used by the wielder of the Key of Kings to undermine the bearer of the Word GLORY, not to mention White Chain and Juggernaut Star undoubtedly closing in fast, and let’s just throw in the one and only Meti too.. and they brought muskets. Those guys are gonna have a bad time.

Its probably a little difficult to keep up with the cutting edge of munition technology from 111,111 worlds all at once. Plus depending on the methods of production it might just be easier to make copper core instead of tearing down the previous system of manufacturing to get a small boost to shot power. Mottom seems like the type of overlord to have entire worlds dedicated to the production of a single type of bullet.

The technology itself is anything any primitive metalsmith can create and I doubt it would run afoul of any of the laws even in Throne. Such bullets penetrate deep which can be advantageous when trying to pierce the skulls of larger beasts. Because they do not use lead, they do not foul the weapon as quickly and the soft tip forces the bullet to deform into a shape similar to a mushroom which makes it more lethal.